ABA Legal Fact Check: A brief history of the Electoral College (Infographic).

Byline: Michaela Paukner, mpaukner@wislawjournal.com

With labels like a "swing state to watch" and a state "where the White House will be won,"the 2020 presidential candidates are eager to claim Wisconsin'svotes both popular and Electoral College.

TheElectoral College formally elects the U.S. president. Most states, Wisconsin included, have a "winner-take-all" system where all its electors' votes go to the candidate who wins the popular vote. Wisconsin has 10 of the 538 total Electoral College votes.

The method has resulted in candidates winning the presidency without winning the popular vote, which happened for a fifth time in 2016 with the election of President Donald Trump.

More than 700 proposals have been introduced in Congress over the past 200 years to change or eliminate the Electoral College, but none has become law because of constitutional hurdles.

A number of 2020 Democratic candidates support eliminating or reforming the Electoral College, but the party's nominee, former Vice...